Penance for Ganga
An environmental scientist continues his relentless battle to save the Ganga, this time by starting a fast unto death. THE campaign to save the Ganga has cost one life in the hill State of Uttarakhand.
An environmental scientist continues his relentless battle to save the Ganga, this time by starting a fast unto death. THE campaign to save the Ganga has cost one life in the hill State of Uttarakhand.
CHENNAI: The southern bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday has admitted a petition filed by former Vijayawada legislator Devineni Rajasekhar and issued notices to Andhra Pradesh government,
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Bardani Mishra Vs State of Madhya Pradesh & Others dated 25/07/2014 regarding illegal mining of sand and its transportation
District Magistrate Harish Chand Semwal has directed revenue, administrative, police and irrigation officials to inspect all permitted quarrying lots in the city. The directions come in the wake of
The Maharashtra government will announce a new sand mining and minor minerals policy within a month, said the State Minister for Environment, Mr Sachin Ahire, on Tuesday. He made the announcement while
Phansidewa block authorities today said they would take stern action against illegal mining in local rivers, following complaints from panchayat officials that such activities have led to the groundwater
The High Court on Friday rejected the Government plea to vacate the stay on sand mining licence, but asked it to allocate by way of auction as per mining rules. Hearing a petition by the State, the division bench headed by Justice Gopala Gowda directed the Government to abide by the rules as per 21 (2) B of Karnataka Minerals Concession rules.
Fracking, the latest craze in the quest to produce oil and gas, has been blamed for environmental problems ranging from flammable tap water to minor earthquakes. Now a new risk is emerging: sand mining.
Sanctioning Authority, SEIAA, Is Headless The Greens in the state are planning to move the National Green Tribunal (NGT) against the environmental clearance given by the State Environmental Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) to 17 quarries at a time when the chairman’s post was vacant in the authority. The SEIAA is the nodal agency in the state that provides clearances for quarrying, sand mining and commercial projects in Kerala.
Urbanisation, influx of pilgrims, fertilizer-intensive farming, and indiscriminate sand-mining have impacted on the water quality of Manimala river, a major source of drinking water in Kottayam and Pathanamthitta districts. A report published in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, an international journal devoted to progress in the use of monitoring data in assessing environmental risks to man and environment, highlights the deterioration in water quality caused by human intervention, especially in the upper reaches of the Manimala river.
Amid allegations of large scale mining of sand from the river bed under the pretext of desilting the Srivaikundam dam, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) ordered Thoothukudi district to keep the entire
Says Status Quo Directive Doesn’t Mean Not Clearing Trees From Drain In Western Ghats Mumbai: The Pune bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), which had called for a stay on the cutting of trees in the eco-sensitive Western Ghats following a TOI report, has slammed government officials for using its order calling for status quo to be maintained in the area, as an excuse not to clear the trees from the nullah.
The National Green Tribunal today banned mining or removal of sand from river beds across the country without an environmental clearance amid the uproar over suspension of an IAS officer who had cracked
The Madras High Court has ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the alleged illegal sand quarrying in Tamil Nadu’s Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur districts. Passing the order on a
Under attack from the opposition over the alleged illegal mining, the Uttarakhand government on Thursday said it would amend the policy to make the mining laws more stringent. Chief Minister Harish Rawat
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of K. Selvarangam Vs. The District Collector, Thiruvallur dated 17/04/2014 regarding illegal quarrying of sand is going on
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Environmental Clearance, 19/07/2016. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has taken various initiatives to make the environmental clearance process more
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Lok Ayukta has directed the Director General of Police (DGP) to deploy sufficient police personnel to keep a constant vigil in the rural areas of the district from where illegal sand mining has been reported.
The district administration has made special arrangements to put an end to illegal sand mining and stone quarrying in the district, and vigilance squads comprising officers from the revenue, police, forest, and mines and geology departments have been formed.
Bullock cart operators and labourers, owing allegiance to the Tiruchi District Sand Bullock Cart Labourers’ Association, staged a demonstration in the city on Tuesday urging the Public Works Department